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Richmond,  Va.,  August  8,  1864. 

General  orders  from  tho  Adjutant  and  Inspector  GercrU's  office  have 
directed  quartermasters  aud  commissaries,  who  receive  tax  in  kind  di- 
rectly from  producers,  to  give  receipts  "on  account  of  tax  in  kind,'*  at 
the  end  of  every  month,  for  the  produce  thus  received  during  the  month,, 
to  tho  quartermaster  on  tax  in  hind  service  in  tho  congressional  district 
where  the  collection  is  made,  or  in  his  absence,  to  the  controlling  quarfer- 
master  of  the  state,  and  to  state  in  said  receipts  the  full  name  and 
county  of  the  tax  payer.  These  instructions  have  not  generally  been 
followed,  and  in  many  cases  have  been  entirely  neglected.  Commissaries 
and  quartermasters  will  be  held  to  strict  compliance  with  them,  both  fur 
collections  already  made,  which  should  be  at  once  receipted  for,  if  not 
already  done,  and  for  the  future.  Compliance  is  indispensable  to  the  eet- 
tlement  of  the  accounts  of  the  quartermaster  of  the  congressional  district 
and  of  the  assessor  and  collector. 

Receipts  of  quartermaster  sergeants  and  other  agents  given  to  pro- 
dncers  are  unjust  impositions  on  them — they  are  worthless  for  the  future. 
The  receipts  of  quartermasters  and  commissaries  and  regular  tax  agents 
are  the  only  good  vouchers. 

The  opinion  seems  to  prevail  that  tax  in  kind  supplies  may  be  used 
wastefully  and  without  accoantability.  This  is  error.  Officers  are  hereby 
notified  that  they  will  bo  held  to  the  samo  accountability  for  this  property 
as  for  that  received  from  any  other  sonrce. 

A.  R.  LAWTON, 

Q.  M.  Generat. 

L.  B.  NORTHROP, 

C.  Gtnerai. 


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